Electric Cars

Sometimes, when tucking in for the evening, you can't help but wonder: did I really make the right choice? Could I have done better? Even now, could I still do better? This is the question I ask myself, each evening, when I park my 2015 Nissan Leaf in the garage next to my wife’s 2006 Toyota...

The 2017 BMW i3 may be offered with two battery-pack options.

A Porsche product manager calls Ludicrous mode a "facade."

The Nissan Leaf and Renault Zoe continue to battle for the lead in European electric-car sales.

It's a grainy, jittery 44-second mobile-phone video, with the Blue Danube Waltz in the background. And it's suddenly relevant because that master of publicity, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, tweeted that the Model S "floats well enough to turn it into a boat for short periods of time." It shows a...

The Tomcar LV1 is an electric off-road vehicle designed for use in mines.

Two early electric cars recently sold at auction in the U.K.

The Tesla Model X's towing ability is a pro, but it comes with quite a few cons.

It happens every so often: a driver claims that a car accelerated out of control just before it crashed into something or other. Only in the last 10 years have automakers had data to investigate the claims, usually from a "black box" that captures a car's most recent few seconds of operating...

The numbers are in, and for the Nissan Leaf electric car, they're not pretty. Despite a boost in its EPA-rated range from 84 to 107 miles, its year-to-date sales of 4,697 units are down 40 percent on the 7,742 that were sold in the same five months last year. And those were down on the total of...

Tesla will open a pilot "gallery" in a Nordstrom store in Los Angeles.

U.S. sales of cars with plugs were essentially flat last month, as low gas prices and perhaps anticipation of longer-range entries within months kept a lid on buyer interest. The second-generation Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid, now available throughout the country as a 2017 model, logged 1,901...

Tesla and SolarCity will construct a combined solar farm and energy storage array in Hawaii.

The Chevy Volt's May sales numbers put it in the driver's seat in Canada for the fourth time in five months The country welcomed its 10,000th plug-in electric vehicle around October 2014, about 40 months after the first Nissan Leafs arrived. This past April—about 18 months later—the...

As with any auto manufacturer, the vehicle production rate at Tesla Motors is intensely scrutinized by shareholders, fans, financial analysts, and competitors. Almost two years ago, CEO Elon Musk had said that the electric-car maker expected to be operating at a "run rate" of 100,000 cars a year by...

A post on a small auto-industry blog that accused startup carmaker Tesla Motors of concealing potentially hazardous suspension breakages blew up into a major media story—and has taken some unexpected twists and turns as it's played out so far. That's par for the course for much of the news...

General Motors plans to add more hybrids and electric cars, despite missing its own goal for sales volume.

A Swiss infrastructure company proposes tractor swapping for electric trucks.

Sooner or later, it can happen in a romance: the two parties decide they're just not that into one another. The state of California dumped hybrid-electric vehicles on July 1, 2011, when it ended the rule that allowed them to use carpool lanes on freeways even with just one occupant. Now the city of...

Faraday Future recently applied for special Michigan license plates to use on prototype self-driving cars.